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“... areas of human evolution. We all do it, but clutching Zimmer frames of jargon in case we stumble. Frans deWaal steps out and puts his opinions on the line. He has also persuaded eight of his most distinguished colleagues to do the same. De Waal is one of the subtlest, most ...”

“... all behaviour on the same continuum, rather than treating animals as wholly different phenomena. Frans deWaal, who has been widely celebrated as an original and iconoclastic primatologist since his ground-breaking Chimpanzee Politics (1982), follows the grand tradition of animal ethology, having studied under Gerard ...”

“... to a city alderman. Under the supervision of two friars, Willem Van Hildernissen and Gilles De Canter, common people and patricians rallied to repudiate the authority of the church and its dogma. They held that, since God was within every human being, men and women were entitled to exercise natural freedoms without reservations, without being ...”

“... context of the group portraits of the schutterij by such artists as Bartholomeus van der Helst or Frans Hals. To the modern eye, Hals may appear to be satirising the militia, presenting their officers as knights of the knife and fork rather than the sword, better-equipped to do battle with the roast beef than with the Spaniards. I would not care to dismiss ...”